Sequence of Orders and Families

[Steve <>]

G'day all

My two bob's worth:

Field guides should incorporate the latest available taxonomy.

This helps birders to gain a better understanding of a whole range of 
bird biology - often without their realising it.
If there are similar but unrelated species then there is no reason why 
an extra species can't be added to a plate out of sequence and some 
discussion be included in the text.
Otherwise, keep to the current accepted taxonomy.  Books which use 
weird ordering are rarely successful and they make comparisons with 
field guides from other countries more problematic.
Cheers

Steve Clark
Hamilton, Vic

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